Booting from <2TB partition of 2+TB HDD without UEFI

[muecke]

Hi,

i've understood, that a non UEFI BIOS does not support 2+TB HDDs.
And i guess, it's because GPT partition table is needed.
But i read, that MBR still works on 2+TB HDDs, if all partitions are <2TB.
Now my question is:
Can i boot without UEFI from a, e.g. 6TB HDD, if i partition it into <2TB partitions with a MBR and boot from the first partition?

Muecke

 

[Calvin7]

To boot from a motherboard with a legacy non-UEFI BIOS you need to use MBR partitioning format which will limit size of drive to 2.2TB.